Flexera’s acquisition of Chaos Genius isn’t just another FinOps bolt-on—it’s a strategic declaration. By bringing autonomous, agentic AI to Snowflake and Databricks optimization, Flexera is positioning itself at the intersection of the two fastest-growing cost challenges in enterprise technology: data clouds and AI workloads. For organizations watching their Databricks and Snowflake bills climb while their data teams scramble to optimize manually, this move signals that help has arrived. The data cloud cost crisis nobody saw coming Something unexpected happened on the way to data-driven transformation. Platforms like Snowflake and Databricks delivered on their promise—enabling real-time analytics, scalable compute, and the…